Passionate about the history of video games, Sarah Szefer has been a gamer since the 1980s. She's contributed to the Digital Press fanzine and is currently a regular member of the RetroGamer.ca website. She also led the team that created the updated translation of The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time 3D for the French-Canadian market. 

Kenny Winder is a 20-year old physically disabled male who graduated high school in the National Honor Society. He is planning to return to University of Michigan after he gets his kidney stone surgery. He also founded and runs the Strider forum The Strider Citadel and is the current editor-in-chief of the Strider fansite The Light Sword Cypher Mainframe. He enjoys playing video games, surfing the web, watching Mega64 videos, and listening to Touhou Project music.

Rick Kelsey is a fan and collector of many different things including comics, old video and board games, books, toys, magazines, TV and movie memorabilia, fanzines, and things related to his 1960s childhood and 1970s teenage years. He has worked in a variety of professions and work environments including administrative assistant for a university’s music department; a freelance writer for magazines; editor/administrative assistant for management and audio/video consulting firms; a writer for weekly and daily area newspapers and public relations departments; and in various retail stores such as a comic book shop and grocery store. He currently lives in Texas with his wife and still spends as much time as possible looking for and playing old video games.

A fellow gamer and member of the Digital Press Forum, the Retrogaming Roundtable, Jared contributed the story "The First Step."

Samantha McComb was a kid who liked video games. Wait, was?

A long standing member of the Digital Press Forum, the Retrogaming Roundtable, Rob contributed the story "Why I Felt Like a Jerk on the Best Day of My Life."

Haleigh Yonish is a blogger and odd job extraordinaire living in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated in 2013 from Elmhurst College with a degree in writing, philosophy, and history. An enthusiast of sci-fi, fantasy, and comedy, she took to writing thought pieces on gender roles in her blog Woe Is Media. In her free time, Haleigh works on her YA fantasy novel and draws RPG characters with Sharpie pens.

William Cassidy launched The Odyssey² Homepage! in 1996, bringing attention to the oft-neglected console and earning him a distinction as "the weird guy who likes the Odyssey²." This, however, did not deter GameSpy from hiring William in 2000 to direct ClassicGaming.com, which was one of the Internet's premier retro-gaming sites. William also joined the Southern California Classic Collectors (SC3) to help organize that organization's biannual classic arcade and console parties. He contributed to the Digital Press Video Game Collector’s Guide Advance, Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984, Retrogaming Times, and the AllGame Guide, and continues to maintain The Odyssey² Homepage! in his spare time.

Mike Plasket is a writer and video game enthusiast who has been playing the NES since he was two years old, and spends his free time researching the histories of videogames and the companies that made them. He is a contributing editor to Kurt Kalata's website, Hardcore Gaming 101, and several of his articles were published in the book Hardcoregaming101.net Presents: The Guide to Classic Graphic Adventures. He also writes scripts for the HG101-hosted podcast, Game Club 199X. Outside of playing with pens and controllers, Mike is also fond of music, movies, food, animals, and the show Adventure Time. Mike currently lives in Pennsylvania.

Ian ‘Yan’ Hook is a custom arcade designer and builder from Somerset, England. Ian was fascinated by video games at an early age and has continued to play, collect and immerse himself in everything that encompasses gaming culture throughout his life. He has gained world recognition for his original arcade machines and continues to raise the bar with each project. His ‘Atari Yars' Revenge’ arcade machine caught the eye of Twin Galaxies founder Walter Day, who then honoured Ian with his own trading card in the now famous Twin Galaxies trading card series. He has his own unique arcade, ‘Yan’s Arcade,’ which can be distinguished by the fact that he hand built every machine.

James Beaver (also known as PrimeOp) is an illustrator and pixel artist who has been hooked on video games since the day he was a toddler watching his parents play a TV Pong game in the living room. James crafted the cover artwork for Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman, and more of his ridiculous scribbles can be found at Illmosis. Proof of his appreciation for action-adventure video games can be found at the ScrollBoss fan game site.